Large Collections of Streaming Video

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films each year. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.

Ohio campuses are treasure troves of knowledge¸ but valuable resources are often hidden. The award-winning Ohio Digital Resource Commons (DRC) provides a robust¸ statewide platform for saving¸ discovering and sharing-free of charge-the instructional¸ research¸ historic and creative materials produced by the University System of Ohio and Ohio's private colleges.

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides nearly a thousand videos available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. These streaming videos include counseling sessions, consultations, interviews, presentations, lectures and searchable transcripts. Many also include study and teaching guides. Videos from any of these collections may be added to Blackboard courses either with permalinks or via embed codes.

Education in Video provides resources for both new and experienced teachers tools to increase their knowledge and skills and for education faculty to link abstract theories of education to real-world students and classrooms.

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. Not many videos, but this is a huge repository of leaning aids, including simulations and flash movies.

The MERLOT Repository is not only learning materials. Along with the learning materials, members have contributed assignments and comments to enhance the teaching experience of an exercise. The learning materials are categorized into 11 different material types. A large selection of materials in MERLOT also have assignments and comments attached to them. (From the MERLOT home page)

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video¸ multimedia retrieval¸ digital library¸ and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems¸ such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation¸ summarization¸ and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content¸ the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared¸ similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.